"Mike the unimaginative" wrote in message
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On 24 Jul, 11:06, judith wrote:
I have just seen in a pound shop some awesome mouse and rat traps.
They are effectively cardboard tunnels with very strong glue on the
internal "walk-way".

It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals
humanely!!

Certainly:
Lump Hammer? Stanley knife? or just a size ten footstep on the
complete issue?

If you must kill your mice, at least dont torture them.

Catching them live and putting them outside costs nothing.

and your advice for rats?

Let the airgun have a shot.

Adam

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:19:44 +0100, Mogga
wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:18:51 +0100, David Hansen
wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:06:28 +0100 someone who may be judith
wrote this:-

I have just seen in a pound shop some awesome mouse and rat traps.
They are effectively cardboard tunnels with very strong glue on the
internal "walk-way".

It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals
humanely!!

It is not humane to leave them stuck to the trap for hours/days.

But do their legs get pulled off if you try and remove them?

No, not at all, at all.

They pull them off themselves.

And unfortunately I am not joking.

In his greengrocers shop my uncle used to use some gook called Dak
which he spread on a piece of cardborad box and left on the floor in
rat runs.

Usually in the morning all was left was one or more sets of four feet
glued to the cardboard. 8-((

DG

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:33:37 GMT, "ARWadsworth"
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"Mike the unimaginative" wrote in message
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On 24 Jul, 11:06, judith wrote:
I have just seen in a pound shop some awesome mouse and rat traps.
They are effectively cardboard tunnels with very strong glue on the
internal "walk-way".

It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals
humanely!!

Certainly:
Lump Hammer? Stanley knife? or just a size ten footstep on the
complete issue?

If you must kill your mice, at least dont torture them.

Catching them live and putting them outside costs nothing.

and your advice for rats?

Let the airgun have a shot.


Or rather let the shotgun an airing. :-)

I was just about to say a shotgun.

DG

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On 24 Jul, 11:06, judith wrote:
I have just seen in a pound shop some awesome mouse and rat traps.
They are effectively cardboard tunnels with very strong glue on the
internal "walk-way".

It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals
humanely!!

Certainly:
Lump Hammer? Stanley knife? or just a size ten footstep on the
complete issue?

If you must kill your mice, at least dont torture them.

Catching them live and putting them outside costs nothing.


Actually it costs great deal in terms of traps and your time, and
actually ACHIEVES nothing, since they will come straight back in, unless
your drive them far enough away (which costs more) and then their
NEIGHBOURS will move in.

As long as you trap and kill faster than they arrive, you will remain
mouse free.



NT

Mike the unimaginative wrote:
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On 24 Jul, 11:06, judith wrote:
I have just seen in a pound shop some awesome mouse and rat traps.
They are effectively cardboard tunnels with very strong glue on the
internal "walk-way".

It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals
humanely!!

Certainly:
Lump Hammer? Stanley knife? or just a size ten footstep on the
complete issue?
If you must kill your mice, at least dont torture them.

Catching them live and putting them outside costs nothing.

and your advice for rats?


AK47.

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:57:50 +0100, Derek Geldard
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It is not humane to leave them stuck to the trap for hours/days.

But do their legs get pulled off if you try and remove them?

No, not at all, at all.

They pull them off themselves.

And unfortunately I am not joking.

In his greengrocers shop my uncle used to use some gook called Dak
which he spread on a piece of cardborad box and left on the floor in
rat runs.

Usually in the morning all was left was one or more sets of four feet
glued to the cardboard. 8-((

DG


Oh that's horrid. Much more horrid than finding half of one chewed up
on the floor.
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"Mogga" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:57:50 +0100, Derek Geldard
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It is not humane to leave them stuck to the trap for hours/days.

But do their legs get pulled off if you try and remove them?

No, not at all, at all.

They pull them off themselves.

And unfortunately I am not joking.

In his greengrocers shop my uncle used to use some gook called Dak
which he spread on a piece of cardborad box and left on the floor in
rat runs.

Usually in the morning all was left was one or more sets of four feet
glued to the cardboard. 8-((

DG


Oh that's horrid. Much more horrid than finding half of one chewed up
on the floor.

Nothing horrid about the death of vermin, however they die.

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"judith" wrote in message
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I have just seen in a pound shop some awesome mouse and rat traps.
They are effectively cardboard tunnels with very strong glue on the
internal "walk-way".

It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals
humanely!!

Certainly:
Lump Hammer? Stanley knife? or just a size ten footstep on the
complete issue?

Any of those!

Gently remove the mouse from the glue and give it to your cat.

Why would a cat want glue?

To stick mice to the floor!

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On 24 Jul, 11:06, judith wrote:
I have just seen in a pound shop some awesome mouse and rat traps.
They are effectively cardboard tunnels with very strong glue on the
internal "walk-way".

It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals
humanely!!

Certainly:
Lump Hammer? Stanley knife? or just a size ten footstep on the
complete issue?

If you must kill your mice, at least dont torture them.

Catching them live and putting them outside costs nothing.

But just transfer the problem to someone else, kill the beggars!

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:45:12 GMT, "Alan Holmes"
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Usually in the morning all was left was one or more sets of four feet
glued to the cardboard. 8-((

DG


Oh that's horrid. Much more horrid than finding half of one chewed up
on the floor.

Nothing horrid about the death of vermin, however they die.


The bloody stump prints would be horrid.
I think I'm just objecting to having to pick the dead ones up.
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Ah fetch it yourself if you can't wait for delivery
http://www.freedeliveryuk.co.uk
Or get it delivered for free

"judith" wrote in message
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I have just seen in a pound shop some awesome mouse and rat traps.
They are effectively cardboard tunnels with very strong glue on the
internal "walk-way".

It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals
humanely!!

Certainly:
Lump Hammer? Stanley knife? or just a size ten footstep on the
complete issue?

The best mouse trap I have used was from b&q and is a plastic box with a
hinged door and ramp.
When the mouse enters the ramp drops and the door closes. it then opens
again so more than one mouse will fit.

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Gently remove the mouse from the glue and give it to your cat.

Is the glue strong enough for cats?

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:42:29 +0100, "dennis@home"
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"judith" wrote in message
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I have just seen in a pound shop some awesome mouse and rat traps.
They are effectively cardboard tunnels with very strong glue on the
internal "walk-way".

It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals
humanely!!

Certainly:
Lump Hammer? Stanley knife? or just a size ten footstep on the
complete issue?

The best mouse trap I have used was from b&q and is a plastic box with a
hinged door and ramp.
When the mouse enters the ramp drops and the door closes. it then opens
again so more than one mouse will fit.


I used to live in a row of newish town houses - they used to run from
the property from the left - through my property in to the property on
the right - using the gap between the downstairs ceiling and the
bedroom floor as the run.

I took up a bedroom floorboard. Put aluminium foil on the ceiling run
- hung a second piece of foil vertically with just a small gap between
it and the horizontal piece. Mains to the two pieces across the gap
and bob's your uncle.

Mike the unimaginative wrote in message
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It says on the packaging - please dispose of any caught animals
humanely!!

Certainly:
Lump Hammer? Stanley knife? or just a size ten footstep on the
complete issue?

If you must kill your mice, at least dont torture them.

Catching them live and putting them outside costs nothing.

and your advice for rats?



Pound shop are doing a Big Cheese plastic rat trap, easy set and a hair
trigger gets them every time.
but less fun then the airgun



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On 24/07/2007 23:52, judith wrote:

I took up a bedroom floorboard. Put aluminium foil on the ceiling run
- hung a second piece of foil vertically with just a small gap between
it and the horizontal piece. Mains to the two pieces across the gap
and bob's your uncle.

So when the house catches fire from a pile of smouldering mice who'll
explain it to the insurance company?